At Oak Park Unified, we believe all students should be safe, respectful, and responsible digital citizens. To support this, we provide a comprehensive digital citizenship curriculum that helps students develop key skills in internet safety, ethical online behavior, cyberbullying prevention, intellectual property respect, and online privacy.

Assembly Bill 2876 (approved 9/29/24) directs the Instructional Quality Commission to include AI literacy and media literacy content in math, science, and history-social science curriculum frameworks and instructional materials at their next revision. It also asks the commission to add media literacy to the English curriculum. Includes putting Bill 873 (2023) in as Ed Code. 

This means everyone should be integrating Digital Citizenship, Media Literacy, and AI into their curriculum. How have we done it in the past, and how we will do so moving forward:

• K-5 teachers utilize lessons from YetiAcademy, which is part of our district wide TypingAgent subscription.

• All grade levels can use UpSavvy Digital Citizenship videos and incorporate them into their curriculum. UpSavvy recently decided to shut down their platform, but have provided the videos on a free YouTube channel (above link).

• Common Sense media has lessons and activities already created that teachers use “plug and play” or modify for their situations, grades 3-12.

• This year we are implementing CyberNut, a phishing campaign to help MCMS and OPHS, OPIS, OVHS students understand how to spot phishing emails and texts.

• Other resources that will be shared by TechLITES:

  • Resources compiled by VCOE so teachers have a place to easily find lessons, projects, and topics.

  • CDE Digital Citizenship Week Resources

  • News Literacy Project: Navigating Election Misinformation Resources

• We will continue to update our resources lists and share them with teachers throughout the year on this page.

• In compliance with the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA), Oak Park Unified School District uses web content filtering to block access to inappropriate or harmful online content, including pornography and other high-risk categories.
• All students access the internet through the district’s secure WiFi network, which is filtered and monitored. The filter works in the background to block inappropriate websites and prevent searches using certain keywords (e.g., pornography, violence, or bomb-making). When a student attempts to visit a blocked site, a message will appear stating that the page is inaccessible.
• The district uses a combination of filtering tools—GoGuardian, and Palo Alto—based on the type of device being used.

Internet access is tiered by grade level, with four filtering groups:

• Grades K–2 (most restrictive)

• Grades 3–5

• Grades 6–8

• Grades 9–12 (least restrictive)

Younger students (K–2) are automatically assigned the most restrictive settings. Older students must log in with their district credentials to access content appropriate to their grade level—for example, certain educational video or social media platforms may be allowed at the high school level but blocked for younger students.

This layered approach ensures safe and age-appropriate internet access for all